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and biological terms.”
Josh looked at him speculatively. “You sure you’re a cop?”
“ Hey, I went to school too, you know.”
“ Police Academy, right?”
Hank pointed at him. “Don’t be condescending.”
Josh looked stricken. “I’m sorry.”
“ Fact is, son, I earned three university degrees and passed this state’s bar exams by the time I was 22 years old,” Hank said. “ Then I went to the academy.”
“ Sorry, I didn’t mean to insult you or anything.”
“ So do you have anything else I should see?”
Embarrassed, Josh deliberated for a moment, poking around in the files on his computer. Then he nodded. “Yes, there is, actually. I was just looking at my notes again. It’s not a video clip, just a piece of information. Actually, a couple of photos. Hang on a sec.”
“ Photos?”
“ Mmm.” Josh tapped the touchpad. “Taylor has a birthmark. Two birthmarks.” He looked at Hank. “This part of our research is really quite amazing. Sixty per cent of reported cases of past life memory by children include a birthmark or physical defect that corresponds in some way to a wound or blemish or other physical characteristic of the previous personality. These marks are checked against post-mortem records whenever possible.”
“ You’re saying these children have the same kind of birthmarks as the person they’re supposed to have been in the previous life?”
Josh shook his head. “No, what I’m saying is that the child often has a birthmark or other physical defect that corresponds to the cause of death of the previous personality. If the previous personality was shot, they have a birthmark where the bullet entered the body. Sometimes they have two birthmarks, one for the entrance wound and one for the exit wound.”
Hank stared at him. “I find that very hard to believe.”
“ I know, when you see the photos, it freaks you right out. I’ve looked at files with post-mortem photos of gunshot wounds right next to photos of a child’s birthmarks, and it’s uncanny, the resemblance between the two.”
“ I don’t see how that’s possible.”
“ It’s very strange,” Josh acknowledged, “and very hard to explain. Dr. Ian Stevenson, who pioneered this field at the University of Virginia beginning in the 1960s, did a lot of work in this area. In a book called Reincarnation and Biology he documented 225 of these cases. He compared the birthmarks to the Stigmata, the wounds people can develop that resemble the wounds of Christ, and he also compared them to known cases in which people develop blisters or burn marks through hypnotic suggestion. His point was that the mind can do things we really don’t understand very well. I could lend you a very interesting book by Dr. Jim B. Tucker that explains it a lot better than I can.”
“ I still don’t understand what you’re driving at. You’re saying that a person’s mind can somehow subconsciously reproduce wounds as birthmarks in their next life?”
“ It may be possible.”
“ But when a person dies, their mind dies too. I mean, blood stops flowing to the brain, the brain dies, it’s game over.”
“ The brain dies,” Josh agreed. “In a mechanistic world view this means that whatever went into the makeup of the person also dies. But it’s possible that the mind is not the same thing as the brain. What if the mind is a phenomenon that interacts both at the physical level with the brain and at the metaphysical level with the soul or some other mode of being that we don’t really understand very well right now?”
Hank shook his head. “I don’t see how anyone can answer that question.”
Josh leaned forward and gestured with his hands. “See, it could be that in some cases where the personality is very strong, the soul or the spirit of that person somehow holds on to self-awareness from one life to the next, long enough to articulate certain memories in early childhood after gaining the power of speech.
Josh looked at him speculatively. “You sure you’re a cop?”
“ Hey, I went to school too, you know.”
“ Police Academy, right?”
Hank pointed at him. “Don’t be condescending.”
Josh looked stricken. “I’m sorry.”
“ Fact is, son, I earned three university degrees and passed this state’s bar exams by the time I was 22 years old,” Hank said. “ Then I went to the academy.”
“ Sorry, I didn’t mean to insult you or anything.”
“ So do you have anything else I should see?”
Embarrassed, Josh deliberated for a moment, poking around in the files on his computer. Then he nodded. “Yes, there is, actually. I was just looking at my notes again. It’s not a video clip, just a piece of information. Actually, a couple of photos. Hang on a sec.”
“ Photos?”
“ Mmm.” Josh tapped the touchpad. “Taylor has a birthmark. Two birthmarks.” He looked at Hank. “This part of our research is really quite amazing. Sixty per cent of reported cases of past life memory by children include a birthmark or physical defect that corresponds in some way to a wound or blemish or other physical characteristic of the previous personality. These marks are checked against post-mortem records whenever possible.”
“ You’re saying these children have the same kind of birthmarks as the person they’re supposed to have been in the previous life?”
Josh shook his head. “No, what I’m saying is that the child often has a birthmark or other physical defect that corresponds to the cause of death of the previous personality. If the previous personality was shot, they have a birthmark where the bullet entered the body. Sometimes they have two birthmarks, one for the entrance wound and one for the exit wound.”
Hank stared at him. “I find that very hard to believe.”
“ I know, when you see the photos, it freaks you right out. I’ve looked at files with post-mortem photos of gunshot wounds right next to photos of a child’s birthmarks, and it’s uncanny, the resemblance between the two.”
“ I don’t see how that’s possible.”
“ It’s very strange,” Josh acknowledged, “and very hard to explain. Dr. Ian Stevenson, who pioneered this field at the University of Virginia beginning in the 1960s, did a lot of work in this area. In a book called Reincarnation and Biology he documented 225 of these cases. He compared the birthmarks to the Stigmata, the wounds people can develop that resemble the wounds of Christ, and he also compared them to known cases in which people develop blisters or burn marks through hypnotic suggestion. His point was that the mind can do things we really don’t understand very well. I could lend you a very interesting book by Dr. Jim B. Tucker that explains it a lot better than I can.”
“ I still don’t understand what you’re driving at. You’re saying that a person’s mind can somehow subconsciously reproduce wounds as birthmarks in their next life?”
“ It may be possible.”
“ But when a person dies, their mind dies too. I mean, blood stops flowing to the brain, the brain dies, it’s game over.”
“ The brain dies,” Josh agreed. “In a mechanistic world view this means that whatever went into the makeup of the person also dies. But it’s possible that the mind is not the same thing as the brain. What if the mind is a phenomenon that interacts both at the physical level with the brain and at the metaphysical level with the soul or some other mode of being that we don’t really understand very well right now?”
Hank shook his head. “I don’t see how anyone can answer that question.”
Josh leaned forward and gestured with his hands. “See, it could be that in some cases where the personality is very strong, the soul or the spirit of that person somehow holds on to self-awareness from one life to the next, long enough to articulate certain memories in early childhood after gaining the power of speech.
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